Jim Crow part 4 | The Gilded Age (1865-1898) | US History | Khan Academy

KA's US history fellow Kim talks about the end of Reconstruction, when federal troops left the South after the Compromise of 1877. The Supreme Court ruled that segregation did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment in the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896. Watch the next lesson: Missed the previous lesson? US history on Khan Academy: From a mosquito-ridden backwater to the world's last remaining superpower, the United States of America is a nation with a rich history and a noble goal: government of the people, by the people, for the people. Its citizens' struggle to achieve that goal is a dramatic story stretching over hundreds of years. About Khan Academy: Khan Academy offers practice exercises,